Kindergarten

Grade 1

Theme	Shared Reading Genre	Connection Ideas
1. Good Students	Animal Fantasy	Fiction animal stories: Realistic (like Henry and Mudge) vs. Fantasy (like Barenstain Bears) Turtle's Penguin Day by Gorbachev
2. Schools Long and Today	Expository	Listen to the Wind by Greg Mortenson (school in Afghanistan - compare and contrast to own school)
3. Thinking like a scientist	Realistic Fiction
4. How does Heat Cause Change	Journal/ ObservationLog
5. My Neighborhood News	Humorous Fiction
6. Community Workers	Interview
7. Weather for Every Season	Fairy Tale	And then it Rained by Dragonwagon
8. Dressing for the weather	Expository
9. Nature's Resources	Realistic Fiction
10. From Mountain to Ocean	personal Narrative
11. Animals Grow and Change	Letter
12. Look at my garden Grow	Procedural
13. Rights and Responsibilities	Play
14. Good Citizens	Biography
15. Home Sweet Habitat	Animal Fantasy
16. All Kinds of Animals	Question and Answer

Grade 2

Theme	Shared Reading Genre	Connection Ideas
1. Stories from our past	Realistic Fiction	Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day by Viorst (humorous because so many examples - have kids discuss examples of things that could really happen to a kid in real life)
2. My Family	Personal Narrative	Sky Dancers by Kirk - similar to Modeled Read "Pop's Bridge" - historical fiction Equity connection - Family of color helping to build an american icon My Abuelita by Johnston (a child's grandmother gets ready to go to work as a storyteller - readers do not know her job until the very end - have students make predictions)
3. The Moon in Motion	Mystery	Moonshot : the flight of Apollo 11 by Floca (An illustrated account of the flight of Apollo 11 in 1969, the first manned mission to land on the moon - discuss illustrated nonfiction)
4. Circling the Sun	Expository
5. Where People Live	Historical Fiction
6. Many States, One Country	Personal Narrative	Hallelujah Flight by Bilder (Historical Fiction) the story of James Banning's transcontinental flight - the first by an African American pilot - endpapers have a map of their flight path.
7. How Do Machines Work	Humorous Fiction
8. What is a Magnet	Procediural Text
9. Cast Your Vote	Play
10. Work that Matters	Expository
11. On the Farm	Fantasy
12. To Market, to Market	Expository
13. Your Money	Folktale
14. Going to Work	Biography
15. The Wonderful Changes of Water	Realistic Fiction
16. Every Drop Counts	Expository